Monthly Archives: November 2013

Here is the first part of my countdown of favourite ATP matches in 2013 with numbers 10 to 3. Enjoy! 10. Andy Murray d. Roger Federer, 6-4 6-7(5) 6-3 6-7(2) 6-2 (Australian Open, SF) This match seems such a long time ago now and perhaps if it had concluded the season, it would be much higher…

Determining my favourite WTA match of 2013 was not clear cut this year but in the end, I have gone for the US Open final between Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka. The quality and intensity of the first two sets ranked significantly higher than anything else I watched on the WTA tour in 2013 and made this a worthy…

Perhaps slightly left-field but this quarter-final between Daniela Hantuchova and Francesca Schiavone at Birmingham was one of my favourite matches of the year. At an International event, I don’t think it got a great deal of coverage and if you didn’t watch it, you probably wouldn’t have thought much of it. This was a terrific…

Doha has never been a tournament that particularly captured my imagination and particularly after their three years hosting the WTA year-ending-championships in front of sparse and non-existent crowds. However it really shone this year with the big names all competing and reaching the latter stages. Along with the Serena-Kvitova quarter-final, the final in Doha between…

Petra Kvitova started the 2013 season in pretty dire form, but it was Doha where she reminded everyone what she was really capable of. This quarter-final with Serena Williams was heavily anticipated and one of the few matches that actually exceeded expectations. I have always felt that Petra is one of the players who could…

In the past couple of years, Grand Slam semi-finals in the ladies draw have always disappointed me. 2013 was a particularly poor year with 6 out of the 8 being decided in straight sets. The only 2 to go the distance this year were Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova at the French Open, and Agnieszka…

One of most underrated matches of the year at number 6 is a second round Wimbledon match between Kaia Kanepi and Angelique Kerber. On my first day of holiday during Wimbledon, this was one of the first matches I watched and it was one that fully captivated my attention. Kanepi has always been billed…

Number 7 in my list goes to one of the biggest shocks of the season when Serena Williams met Sabine Lisicki in the 4th round of Wimbledon. Heading up the Magic Monday schedule on Centre Court on arguably the best tennis day of the year, Serena was set for her toughest test yet against a…

Number eight in my list is the final from Linz between Angelique Kerber and Ana Ivanovic. The tournament had all kinds of drama surrounding it this year as Kerber was awarded a late wildcard after the draw had already been made. It was reported that the Austrian player, Lisa-Maria Moser was forced to pull out…

Tokyo was one of my favourite tournaments of the entire year and in particular, the two semi-finals were both superb. The first of the semi-finals between Petra Kvitova and Venus Williams was my favourite match from Asian swing coming in at number 9 on my countdown. Venus had rolled back the years beating a struggling…